Morphology and Syntax
Across
- 2. signifies “action” or “state of being”
- 5. a verbal that uses the structure “to + verb”
- 6. an auxiliary that adds emotion or mood to the verb phrase
- 9. the study and description of word formation in language
- 10. words that act as place holders or substitutes for nouns
- 12. the smallest unit of sound
- 13. words that can be modified into comparative and superlative forms
- 15. how a word is structured to create meaning
- 17. words which link other words, phrases, and clauses together
- 18. a pronoun or determiner that points to a specific noun
- 20. the smallest unit of meaning
- 21. a type of adjective that explains “which one,” “what kind,” “how many,” or “whose”
- 22. a type of clause that cannot exist apart from other language elements because it doesn’t carry enough information
- 23. provide information about verbs and other modifiers
Down
- 1. a type of verb that takes a direct object
- 3. the vocabulary of a person; their inner dictionary
- 4. a morpheme that changes the form but not the grammatical class of a word
- 7. a group of words with a subject but does not contain an action
- 8. the order in which adjectives are listed
- 11. the way linguistic elements are put together into meaningful sentences
- 13. a verbal that functions as a noun
- 14. comprised of the words a, an, the
- 16. a group of words with a subject and an action
- 18. a morpheme that changes the form as well as the grammatical class of a word
- 19. a person, place, thing, or abstraction